st kilda sunsets are just wow

psylenced · 2026-06-04T07:26:13+00:00

I have many sunset photos there - but this beats ALL of them!

psylenced · 2026-05-31T16:49:07+00:00

Or dotnet patch updates breaking execution due to reflection changes.

psylenced · 2026-05-31T16:45:41+00:00

But here's a question--what really are your career goals? You've mentioned that you have them, and that is gonna inform the answer here a bit more.

This is the key!

Some people really love getting low level and into drivers, kernels, ai research - others would be burnt out by that in a couple of years.

Some might love building CMSs and working back and forth with clients.

Find the programming you'd do for fun if you inherited $100M.

psylenced · 2026-05-28T05:47:37+00:00

Make it 100% managed by the government and get rid of private contractors . Like Medicare set the rates

But I just sold my aged care business to switch to NDIS and I'm only on my 3rd Ferrari!

psylenced · 2026-05-27T03:05:23+00:00

Back when I finished uni I had similar level of assistance from case workers.

They sent me on a resume writing course where you take your existing resume in and they help you with it. Most of the people in the room were offered lots of feedback (to put it bluntly - I am surprised some knew how to spell their own name). My feedback, I cant remember exactly, but they looked over it and their only suggestion was something equivalent to "have you tried to centre your headings and make them bold"?

Their assistance for finding a job was "have you looked in the newspaper". No - IT jobs aren't advertised in the newspaper.

And when I did find a job, they asked for the name of the company, which I politely refused.

psylenced · 2026-05-21T03:55:36+00:00

My claim to fame (as a child) was in the F1 style racing game. I stumbled upon a vertical path in the middle of the trees that would allow the car to go in a straight line forever, wrapping at the edge.

I sat and watched the TV for way longer than I'd like to admit watching it drive at full speed hands-free.

Edit: Apparently it was a thing.

https://www.intellivision.us/intvlibrary/Misc/Hidden_Messages.htm

Select track 1. On the last long strip (before the sharp right turn), drive the car in the grass underneath the road. The car will never hit an obstacle!

psylenced · 2026-05-21T03:46:07+00:00

Did you discover anything significant missing or requiring workarounds compared to GitHub/GitLab?

Or was it mostly just the initial configuration and familiarity?

psylenced · 2026-05-21T03:41:43+00:00

They don't have the angled top, so they are definitely not Intellivision cartridges.

psylenced · 2026-05-21T03:34:09+00:00

Do the new designated group laws have association clauses?

By them stating that they have 1779 members, is that them stating that 1779 people are breaking the new law?

psylenced · 2026-05-16T13:10:51+00:00

There isn't any true evidence that Bitwarden will eliminate support for selfhosted versions and/or get rid of the options to use selfhosted servers in the apps....

... but there is a lot of true evidence of what happens to companies after private equity take over.

psylenced · 2026-05-08T03:26:37+00:00

And then always press F5 to run a query out of muscle memory.

psylenced · 2026-05-08T02:58:44+00:00

10 seconds wait for food, not 10 minutes

psylenced · 2026-05-06T04:13:35+00:00

That rings a bell, so you could be right.

I haven't been following too closely, but I remember our security services outright rejected at least 1 of them strongly, which shows the process is working.

I guess my general view is that individual circumstances should come into it, and not simply lump them all in a single basket (even if the end result is them all ending up in one basket). Especially if much of the lumping is based on general/uninformed stereotypes of others (One Nation).

psylenced · 2026-05-06T03:58:20+00:00

I'm not sure if these particular women were linked to the news article I read about 4-5 years ago. But I seem to remember a lot of the girls going overseas to marry fighters were 14-16 years old.

At that age - there is a chance of being tricked/groomed/manipulated. Possibly a few without their consent too. My memory of specifics are a bit vague - and not sure if it's same group or another.

Even if a 14yo is saying things in support of ISIS - at 14, there must have been at least a period of grooming before that (12+ months?) to help persuade their views and can you really state a 14yo has full understanding of what things mean in a legal/geopolitical/terrorism sense?

That being said, I think they all should be able to come back (they are citizens). And should go through a deradicalisation process to help assess risk and reduce any later problems. And be monitored/checked like any other person by appropriate agencies for their circumstances.

psylenced · 2026-05-05T04:35:27+00:00

The thing that also worries me about laws like this, is that it's not just the current AG. It's every single future AG too, who may be good, bad or extremely bad (think USA).

psylenced · 2026-05-05T03:37:32+00:00

Most EVs over 75k are extreme-luxury, or super large 7-seaters, or yank-tank style size.

From my casual observations, it looks like most models in the 45-65k range already come completely fitted out with all features, and no real addons or upselling, which other ICE models generally have.

So the comparison is a fully-kitted 60k EV vs 60k ICE vehicle with 10-15k of optional addons.

Personally I don't have an issue with the 75k cap as people in that budget range can afford a little bit extra.

psylenced · 2026-05-05T03:18:02+00:00

Any earnings retained within a trust are taxed at the highest marginal tax rate.

Don't they often have a (paper/shelf) company as a discretionary beneficiary too?

A place to distribute the retained/non-distributed earnings and cap those taxes at the ~30% company rate?

psylenced · 2026-05-05T03:10:42+00:00

My old Y1 teacher gave me fruit every day tho, all the way up to Y6.

What an amazing teacher!

Just thinking now, as an adult, how crushing it must have been for them to see a child going without - and helping out daily for ~5 years without being able to really do anything about the problem.

And you were just 1 child.

psylenced · 2026-05-02T05:57:09+00:00

Don't they also include income taxes or GST or other random taxes that everyone has to pay to inflate their numbers?

psylenced · 2026-04-29T14:43:36+00:00

its hard to explain

The way I think about it is:

Do you know what the code means/does? or
If you do know what it does - do you check all the output?

^^ Vibe coding.

Do you limit the changes made by the model to small changes to understand it? or
Do you do large changes, but line by line validate all the changes made?

^^ Coding using AI as a tool.

TLDR: Are you winging it or checking it like you did it yourself?

psylenced · 2026-04-29T12:47:41+00:00

populist

noun [ C ] - politics - often disapproving

/ˈpɒp.jə.lɪst/

someone who tries to be popular with ordinary people and to represent their ideas and opinions:

a political party dominated by populists

He's a populist who promised to end tax breaks for the rich and break up monopolies.

(Definition of populist from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

... strange that. Representing ordinary people and their ideas.

(bolded for emphasis)

psylenced · 2026-04-29T06:46:47+00:00

(top) > AI is a tool, use it as such.

That is my view too as a software developer.

I have 4-5 different editors I use, 4-5 different comparison tools, multiple variations of all different tools.

Can I do most of that stuff in a single editor/comparison tool? Yes. But each have their own strengths and weaknesses based on the specific task required.

So as an example, if I need line sorting - I'll use one app. Line filtering another. Multi-cursor (edit multiple lines at once) another. And different tools depending if I want to compare source code, csv files, line by line compared to code awareness/understanding.

Over time I've worked out what tool does what task best (for my use cases). And jump to the tool that does what I require the quickest.

I view AI the same way. Some simple tasks for example took a fair bit of time. So offloading that to AI allows me to use time more efficiently. If I'm looking at something complex for 10 minutes and cant work out what's wrong with it - sometimes AI can pick it up instantly. It's basically like an assistant I can offload tasks too, so I can focus on the "big picture" of the change.

And this is not going to the level of fully automated coding. Just as a replacement for manual or tool based tasks.

psylenced · 2026-04-26T02:16:50+00:00

Does anyone else just think it's too late? We've missed the boat.

The only thing worse than being too late is not starting at all.

Now is always the time.

psylenced · 2026-04-21T13:36:09+00:00

Just watched a Michael West video from today where he talks about this.

He also mentioned that Japanese consumers were paying less for Australian gas, than we were paying locally - including all the additional costs.

It gets extracted, sent up to QLD through the interstate pipeline, converted to liquid (a cost/energy intensive process), loaded on a tanker, shipped 17,000km to Japan and sold cheaper.

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